buckethead 2015

CCF was represented well before, during and after the race..
Great weekend and tons of fun with the gang
The deep rudders came in No 7

Friday we started fooling around
Zach has a clean beauty


Then I started working on my faceplants


Saturday race was on and 1st boat we saw was a ski nauti hauling ass and at the time leading the pack (came in 2nd at the end)


Them came pfelger (from the folks I know)


HW showing us how it's done


Zach looking good


Nice Fish showed up


After the race we started doing disking


Another HW shot but I have no idea what he is doing and sure don't wana know ;-0


The we went off to the local bar and ...well guess Fireballs sounded like a good idea at the time but not so much Sunday morning

Anyway we did some more sun stuff today
Steve footing behind his clean BFN


Then we got Paul up on the short line


Joe looking comfortable back there


Me still thinking Fireballs were a bad idea...


Then we got Paul up on the long line for the first time in his footing life. Nice job!


Well and ya'll know how that ends...


Brad enjoying another pull and riding through some nasty waves and still smiling on the other end!


there were some nice boats out (tons of BFN's)



The deep rudders doing a 6 man step of run (Zach is somewhere in the spray...well maybe he just took a fall and is excused)



Official team pic

Change of plans, BK is bringing the reverse gel 86 now.

Mark- 91 Footer (wolf pack)
TJ- 91 Footer (Red/Black/White)
Teddy/Kelly- 90 Footer (Pink/Black/White)
Vince- 90 Footer (Red/Black/White)


Another river resident Tayte should be there in his Maroon 88 Footer

Klosterman may be in a red 88 Footer but last I saw it was for sale.

I don't think Sean is bring his blue 91.

Brian isn't bringing the reverse gel 86

Teddy isn't bringing the yellow/grey 89

Quinner does not allow any photographic equipment at his events, it's all taken away at the entrance to the compound, I don't want to risk being on the do not invite list for the next event if I try to sneak anything in.

90 - tullfooter
88 - DHart
87 - pfelgner
86 - 86BFN
79 - TRBenj

phatsak should have a handle on the central IN crew

Just got off the phone with Brian aka Buckethead.
He was asking me how many BFN's I thought there might be. I'm guessing 10+. He was thinking that makes for an incredible photo op. We had (6) together two years ago, but we should be able to blow that number out of the water.
How many from this site are going? My '90

We were thinking the schedule of events might go like this (subject, and likely to change);

Rick's Sports Bar and Grill Friday night.
Race from 6:30 launch, 7:30 start, to finish around 9:30 (1st place finish around 8:30, but who cares about them)
Apre' race get together from 10:00-12:00ish
Back on the water and hopefully the sand bar, after refueling the boats and coolers, by 1:30.
Back to the campsite for drinks, cards, dice, boat ogling, and whatever else comes up

Can't wait.
Steve

Looks like this is turning into a rather extravagant CCF mini!
Besides a large number of BFN's it appears there will also be a 2001, a 95 SN and a Fish!
I'm looking forward to the weekend and will make sure to snap tons of pics
Skutch, it's only a 5hr drive for you, so come an bring the bass (yes you can fish in the morning)
Greg, burn some of them airline miles and come
Timbob, jump on a Delta flight

See ya all at the bar Friday (or on the river before that)

JoeinNY wrote: phatsat67 wrote: Joe, feel free to captain the 85 during the Saturday race if you wish. The carb is acting slightly funny from my Alabama trip but it'll get the job done for the weekend. Does this mean I should bring my tools and some gaskets... I had my paypal for the Sunday race returned, anyone know what is up with that?

Nah, I think it was vaporizing the fuel in the idle circuits down in Bama because it was so dang hot. It would act like you turned the key off as soon as you closed the butterflies past the transition circuit. I tossed a new ballast resistor on because the output looked a little high. Seemed to help slightly but it did it one more time. Air temp was hovering right at 100.

It just doesn't idle quite as well as it did before the trip. Maybe crap in the idle circuits. Just requires a little more of a fuel squirt sometimes on a hot start. and idles a little more rough when it's cold. Quick fuel will come around in the spring I think.

Sunday race is still on but not enough pre orders for the shirt, so no shirt whichbis why you got the money back
Sunday Funday is on thou

Woooooo!!! I am pumped to ski. Sorry for being a little absent around here lately. Got some things figured out at N3 and should be back on track like normal. There have been some road blocks this year but we are hoping to be on the up swing this winter/spring season.

Joe, feel free to captain the 85 during the Saturday race if you wish. The carb is acting slightly funny from my Alabama trip but it'll get the job done for the weekend. We are all planning on being there a little later in the day on Friday to take a river tour from Mark to point out possible shallow spots and practice some hot starts with the race line. So, if anyone is there boatless Friday afternoon hop in for the river tour. Plenty of boats to roll with.

From what I hear our team is feeling pretty darn good on our feet and we are skiing with a top notch boat and set of driver so it should be a good time.

Also, KSO is skiing on the team that usually finishes second or third so it will be interesting haha.

Tim, shall we do a step off battle behind Paul's boat since it'll be there? haha.

Steve, I've tried to get Brendan to ski all sumer but he's to busy with his honey do list !

Starting to pack up the gear. My wife says she might put a quick coat of wax on the boat. I think she likes when I leave for the weekend.
We're bringing my '90 to pull the Burning Soles team on Saturday. We will also have 2-3 guys who will foot on Sunday. I'm bummed to find out today that my buddy Shawn is not bringing his '91 BFN. I'm working on him to bring it.
We're staying at the Crandall campground. Trust me, it's always a party at Mark and Sandy's.
If you have any questions about the weekend, don't hesitate to ask. We've been involved since the beginning.

Buckethead is always fun but I usually don't stay. Maybe I should. See you all friday night.

skutsch wrote: Hope you guys do well. Just be safe, fresh oil change for the race boat, watch the engine temp - its a long way. Go FAST!!!

If you have a spare BFN, I can drive it to the halway point as a backup

Hope you guys do well. Just be safe, fresh oil change for the race boat, watch the engine temp - its a long way. Go FAST!!!

Not sure how many but there are 12 teams running again this year. 87bfn will be there running his 99 196 with his built 502 and me pfelgner, I have a team running an 87 bfn. There are usually always 8 bfn's at this race. I bet we'll see at least 12 bfn's there but not all running the race.